Thank you, to the strangers at the park

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Open Poetry #49

Thank you, to the strangers at the park

crosscountry83
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since 2009-07-30

Posts 345

0 posted 2014-07-24 12:45 PM

a group of you pretentious adolescents,
five or six, maybe seven.

As I circled the lake
the waves gently lapped
and you shallowly shouted:

“Is that a guy or a girl?”
“No, look, that running over there.
what is it?”
“I can’t tell!”
“I don’t know.” you said, “Ha, ha, ha!”

Haha.. ha.. ha.
I looked over and returned your stares,
my eyes outnumbered
as your laughs flew with the breeze
and landed in the air around my ears.

You paused, and I paused, stricken.
The perfect moment of suspended silence,
but you went on.

Though my stride remained steady,
anger pounded through my veins
and sadness prickled at my fingertips.

I looped around again, intently,
how best to spend my next two cents?
I kept those pennies for another day.

A lap longer, a mile more.
A second stripped off my next race.

and I have only you to thank.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2014-07-25 12:03 PM

That's right... keep the focus on what's important. One of the keys to life.

Michael

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